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Allen Glasser
1908–1971
An early science-fiction writer and fan, he helped shape fandom in the 1930s while producing a small but memorable body of work. He is best known for the chapbook The Cavemen of Venus and for his involvement with one of the first science-fiction fanzines.
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The Martian
by A. R. (Alec Rowley) Hilliard, Allen Glasser
About the author
Born in New York on September 4, 1908, Allen Glasser was an American science-fiction writer and fan who was briefly active in the early 1930s. Reference sources on speculative fiction identify him as the author of The Cavemen of Venus (1932), and they note that he also used the names Sears Langell and George Zambock.
He was closely tied to early fan culture. Accounts from fan-history and library sources describe him as active in New York fandom, associated with the Scienceers, and involved in editing The Time Traveller, a publication often described as one of the first fanzines devoted to science fiction.
Glasser died in October 1971. Although his published output was small, his name remains part of the story of how science fiction grew not just through magazines and books, but through the fan communities that formed around them.